2002 Garden Globe Award for Best Trade GERALDINE ADAMICH LAUFER Atlanta Botanical Garden 915 Lake Charles Drive Roswell, GA 30075-3225 770/642-0066 fax 770/642-9293 GeriL@ufer.com
		GERALDINE ADAMICH LAUFER UPDATED BIOGRAPHY Author of acclaimed book, Tussie-Mussies (Workman Publishing Co., 1993, reprinted 1995, paperback 2000) ® Garden Book Club Selection and Book-of-the-Month Club Alternate Selection ® Won Best Book of the Year award from the Garden Clubs of Georgia (1995) ® Appearances on Good Morning America, Between the Lines, Home Matters; 30 city book tour ® Spoke at FTD (Florist's Transworld Delivery) convention in Anaheim, AIFD (American Institute of Floral Design) Convention in Atlanta, IHA (International Herb Association) convention, and many of the major U.S. Flower Shows (1994-present) Geri's 2-acre home garden, "Frog Holler" ® Better Homes and Gardens Special Interest magazine, Perennials, Spring, 2001, 10 page article ® Won 2001 "Herald Award" of the American Nursery and Landscape Association for garden writing ® June, 2000 Atlanta magazine article entitled "The 20 Most Beautiful Gardens in Atlanta" ® Won "Best Garden in Georgia, Large Garden category", award from Garden Clubs of Georgia, 1998 ® Geri’s Shakespeare Garden appeared on CNN-TV (1997) ® the 2 Atlanta gardens she has created have been featured in 5 books, 55+ magazines and 10 Garden Tours (1988- present) Geri currently acts as Public Relations Manager, Editor of Clippings newsletter and Senior Garden Writer for the Atlanta Botanical Garden, and before that she was an ABG Volunteer and served on the ABG Board of Trustees from 1980-1998. Geri’s "Fuqua Orchid Center Media Kit" ® Won the 2002 Top Ten Garden Globe Award (Garden Writers’ Association of America) ® Won the 2002 Communicator Award of Distinction" The Atlanta Botanical Garden’s new Web site, www.atlantabotanicalgarden.org ® Won 2002 Top Ten Garden Globe Award (GWAA) ® Won 2002 Communicator Crystal Award of Excellence for the new ABG Web Site Taught 9 different college-level courses for the Environmental Horticulture Department at Gwinnett Technical Institute (2-year Associate Degree program) outside Atlanta (1994-98) Columnist and frequent features writer for the Herb Companion magazine Member of The Herb Society of America (HSA), a 69-year old national organization ® Founding Chairman of the Atlanta-area chapter, the 'Chattahoochee Unit', ® 2-year co-editor of The Herbarist, the annual national journal of The HSA ® recipient of the 1988 HSA Research Grant for work on tussie-mussies Cobb County Horticulture County Agent, University of Georgia Cooperative Extension Service, 1979-1981 ® Won 1980 National and 1980 Southeastern region Rohm and Haas Communications Awards for "Best Series of Slides and Script" ® First Cobb County Tour of Gardens ® Demonstration Herb Garden on Cobb County Fairgrounds ® Master of Science in Horticulture with Honors from Rutgers University ® Research Grant for work on Master’s thesis: "Allelopathy in Asparagus" ® Bachelor of Science in Social Psychology and Education from University of Pittsburgh, summa cum laude Geri Laufer is a fun-loving gardener, experienced on the garden club circuit, and a lively public speaker with great rapport with her audiences. She consistently gets excellent class evaluations by students and audiences, and she is an award-winning garden writer. Geri lives and gardens at "Frog Holler" outside Atlanta, Georgia with her husband, David Laufer, a graphic designer, their 2 college-aged sons, Larry and Vincent, and dog and cat. Work info: Atlanta Botanical Garden 1345 Piedmont Ave. N.E. Atlanta, GA 30309 404-591-1550 fax 404-876-7472 glaufer@atlantabotanicalgarden.org www.atlantabotanicalgarden.org